CURBSIDE SPLENDOR PUBLISHING
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Published by Curbside Splendor Publishing, Inc., Chicago, Illinois in 2016.
First Edition
Copyright © 2016 by Steve Dahl, Dave Hoekstra, Paul Natkin
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015948128
ISBN 978-1-945883-00-2
Cover photo used with permission by Paul Natkin
Design by Alban Fischer
CONTENTS
DISCOGRAPHY
AUTHOR’S NOTE
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
PREFACE
1. MIKE AND BILL VEECK
2. JANET AND STEVE DAHL
3. BRIDGEPORT AND THE SOUTH SIDE
4. THE 1979 CHICAGO WHITE SOX
5. CHICAGO ROCK IN A DISCO WORLD
6. DENNIS DEYOUNG: CHICAGOAN AND LIFELONG WHITE SOX FAN
7. STEVE AND GARRY
8. CHICAGO RADIO OF THE LATE 1970S
9. DISCO
10. NILE RODGERS GOOD TIMES
11. HARRY WAYNE CASEY AND KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND—GODFATHERS OF DISCO
12. NANCY FAUST: THE ONLY LIVE ACT THAT NIGHT
13. LORELEI—THE ORIGINAL LOOP ROCK GIRL
14. HOW DISCO DEMOLITION WAS DESIGNED
15. HOW DISCO DEMOLITION WENT DOWN
16. LEGENDARY GROUNDSKEEPER ROGER BOSSARD: THE MORNING AFTER
17. DISCO DEMOLITION VENDORS SERVE MEMORIES
18. HOUSE
19. AFTERMATH
Steve Dahl
M.C. ANTIL, gofer for Bill Veeck
THAD BOSLEY, 1979 White Sox player who later played for the Cubs, also a soul-gospel musician
ROGER BOSSARD, legendary third-generation groundskeeper at Comiskey Park/U.S. Cellular Field
JOE BRYL, Chicago DJ and cultural historian
MICHAEL CARTOLANO, president of Melrose Pyrotechnics, orchestrated the demolition, has worked with the White Sox since 1959
HARRY WAYNE CASEY, frontman of KC and the Sunshine Band (often credited as the godfathers of disco)
BOB CHICOINE & DAVE GABOREK, Comiskey Park vendors who worked Disco Demolition
JANET DAHL, Steve Dahl’s longtime wife and partner
STEVE DAHL, legendary Chicago radio DJ
DENNIS DEYOUNG, co-founder of the popular rock band Styx
TOM DREESEN, comic and fan of Faces, the city’s best known disco
DJ LADY D (DARLENE JACKSON), international house music DJ, producer, owner of the D’lectable Music label
ED FARMER, 1979 White Sox player, current team announcer
NANCY FAUST, White Sox organist
TONY FITZPATRICK, Chicago artist, author, and former WLUP radio host
TOM GORSUCH, owner of The Original Mother’s, the longest running dance club in America (with Chris Ryan)
KEVIN HICKEY, Chicago restaurateur, fifth-generation Bridgeport resident
JOHN ILTIS, Chicago publicist for WLUP and Disco Demolition
CHAKA KHAN, ten-time Grammy Award winner, R&B and jazz singer from Chicago
KEN KRAVEC, 1979 Chicago White Sox pitcher
TONY LA RUSSA, 1979 White Sox manager
RICHARD LEWIS, comedian
LES GROBSTEIN, reported on the game for the Associated Press, became Steve and Garry’s sports reporter
“LORELEI” SHARK, the iconic “rock girl” of The Loop who was at Dahl’s side and threw out the first pitch of the double-header
DAVE LOGAN, promotions director at WLUP for Disco Demolition
GARRY MEIER, Chicago rock DJ and co-host of the Steve and Garry Show
MITCH MICHAELS, Chicago rock DJ since 1971
JERRY MICKELSON, co-founder of Jam Productions
PAUL NATKIN, Chicago rock ‘n’ roll photographer
RICK NIELSEN, guitarist of Cheap Trick
JIM PETERIK, founder of the band Survivor and vocalist for the band Ides of March
JIM RITTENBERG, general manager at Faces
NILE RODGERS, lead guitarist and co-founder of the band Chic and ten-time nominee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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